On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling > daemons, but the current mess is, well, a mess. I would also love to have a way to easily configure which daemons should be started at boot time. I don't know whether switching to insserv made things simpler in that regard though. In general I don't like having to mess with /etc/default/foo because it also makes it more difficult to start/stop by hand. Once nice compromise is what the mldonkey-server package does: - /etc/default/mldonkey-server can be used to disable starting at boot, but: - /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server force-start still allows manual starting of the service - the service is correctly stopped on shutdown I would personally really like to see this in most daemons that not all users may need all the time. Extra bonus points for having some convention for option names. -- -- arthur - adejong@debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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